2.20.... Exchange rate has changedI'm getting $2.18 so it's somewhere around $2
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2.20.... Exchange rate has changedI'm getting $2.18 so it's somewhere around $2
Is that the one that grows super tall?
See.... you need sheep in your systemYears ago we had Yarrow start to take over a paddock at dad's. The cattle wouldn't touch it. In the end we ploughed 10 acres to get rid of it
I just use feed oats/peas etc here, know exactly what you mean by certified type seed pricesBeen pricing out seed today and for the same price of 100 lbs of seed, I could get 2 tonnes of wheat
The owning the land appeals more and more now. Rented is fine especially if it's home and it's pretty, but to be able to buy some cheap neglected ground and bring it back to life would be great, rather than improving land that someone else owns and whom doesn't really give a Feck about. (35 years one bit of land has been rented by us... Never met the owner yet!)I planted a wheat and barley pot for a demonstration in my school presentations. Had to have close to 100% germination and that was just a random handful of both taken from work
I don’t mind the idea of seeding annuals like that but would like to add in legumes with better longevity. However not at the expense of hundreds and hundreds of dollars. At least not until I own the land! Been sourcing some private seed sellers. They’re half the price and the seed just isn’t inoculated. But that’s only alfalfa, can’t find the others yet
Hows your frost seeding experiment looking now @Kevtherev ?
Do you roll or drag the pastures after seeding ?See.... you need sheep in your system
I find sheep and youngstock actively search it out, it is in the soil here so any chance it gets, it grows.
It is a sod when it takes over as you will know.
Will be interesting to see if anything happens.
Will put sheep in here in about a week, should take them about 5 days to clean up the grass, only have about 65 of them
--mostly chicory and plantain and clovers but all sorts, the odd leftover oat and pea, beans and kale seed, all sorts really all food of some description and that is the end goal:to grow more winter food and introduce some new herbs and clover to old pastures, cheaply
Very much a case-by-case basis.Do you roll or drag the pastures after seeding ?
But......Very much a case-by-case basis.
When I seeded with the tractor, I had 70 fat cattle trotting around and they did a fair job.. normally mob-grazing does the job in our climate, but it does depend on soil surface conditions a lot.
I have a good drag and a roller, not scared to use them but also have a "leave it alone" policy when it comes to tractoring my grassland.
I see clouds of emmissions, expense, compaction - you can tell I fit in great on here, where it just isn't farming unless you're 12 tons or more
Words fail me....
Yeah, even the tractors are green and yellow, very natural.But......
It MUST be eco-friendly, it's spreading organic manure!
But getting properly stuck is a badge of honourYeah, even the tractors are green and yellow, very natural.
Great way to look after the soil, compaction is a livestock problem after all
You can see why I get a bit hot on people that do this type of thing without considering the WHOLE picture - tractor weight being a fine example of this
Half the tractors I see on this forum would be too heavy even for dry soils to bear - so two days after the wettest ever winter is just right
but, sheep make a mess!
Pictures?I once had a MF8470 so deep that we ripped the suitcase weights right off it
And needed 3 excavators to remove it, a 12T and 2x 20's
It was a gully that had been dozed in, didn't know that in the dark, but I soon learnt.
No!!!Pictures?
Almost a year ago but, if I recall your conversation correctly, you had the Case Magnum through some deep stuff tooNo!!!
I may have one somewhere, wasn't a proud moment
I sowed kale with Vicon by mixing seed with fert. It was fine, though I think birds got some, and there were some broken seeds. You could reduce seed rate by mixing with dry sandI tried rape and stubble turnip with one of those. Thought there was a lot of broken seeds.
Very fast though. Actually it got a lot faster at the end when the seed was running low